I sent this email to krugman@nytimes.com -- thought I would share it with all of you.
Dear Mr. Krugman,
I read your opinion piece in today's Times with dismay. The Democrats, more than anything else, need to come to realistic grips with what it was that lead to this colossal defeat in the elections. And if people such as yourself are going to harp on this post-9/11 hangover and revulsion over the gay marriage issue you're steering in the wrong direction and clearly missing the point.
I take particular offense to your reference to "opposition to minority rights" as a corollary to opposition to abortion and gay rights. Please explain how someone who does not morally agree with infanticide is by extension a bigot and a racist. The connection is not clear to me. And the other point you are missing is that just because a voter rejects same sex marriage does NOT mean that they do not support gay rights generally. Apparently there is no difference to you between gay marriage and civil unions.
But with all due respect sir, reading columns such as your and witnessing the palpable hatred and contempt you have for our president and his supporters is astonishing. Hearing you and other media elites rant about how unfair everything is in the world makes this election the gift that just keeps on giving. Please keep it up.
Sincerely,
Mark
I sent an email thanking him for his vitriolic rant. They helped get the President re-elected.
You left an opening a mile wide here. We do oppose gay rights. Gays should be entitled to the same rights as all of God's children, but not a wit more. We need to deracinate the notion of protected groups from our language - whether they be country club republicans, or ghetto residents, or dimwitted floozies who call themselves actresses.